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[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (19 children)

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (8 children)

So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Packagers job to make it fit their distro, innit?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a package maintainer, it's a lot of fun sometimes!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I bet, both ironically and genuinely, depending on the cade. Flatpak must feel like a godsend to a lot of people haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've actually never used flatpak, I still prefer distro-specific package managers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Flatpak is really nice imo. You can have stable distro with up-to-date apps. And sandboxing for proprietary stuff, which is really nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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